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title: “It is well, friend,” answered Nah-chu-rú-chu; “but what game shall… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: “It is well, friend,” answered Nah-chu-rú-chu; “but what game shall we play? Who acts: game, friend. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The First of the Rattlesnakes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 30

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“It is well, friend,” answered Nah-chu-rú-chu; “but what game shall we play?

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**Who acts:** game, friend · **What happens:** be, answer, play · **To what, where:** friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (game, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:8:31
# text = “It is well, friend,” answered Nah-chu-rú-chu; “but what game shall we play?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	chu	chu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	rú	rú	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	chu	chu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	parataxis	_	_
21	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | game | friend |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: ask* | past | friend |  |  |  |  | chu rú *ccomp*; what *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** *in a quote* | shall | game |  |  |  |  | we *nsubj* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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